العربية / Arabic Bible History (3c)

**List: Arabic Ministry Holy Bible ( الكتاب المقدس ) Arabic... CARSHUN. "THE Carshun, or Arabic in Syriac characters, is used (chiefly by members of the Syrian churches) in Mesopotamia as far as Bagdad, in Mount Lebanon, at Aleppo, and in many other parts of Syria.   It has been calculated that the number of individuals who speak Arabic, but use the Syriac character, is about one million.   A diglot edition of the New Testament, in which the Syriac Peshito and the Carshun from the Arabic text of Erpenius, were ranged in parallel columns, was published in 1703 at Rome, at the press of the College de Propaganda Fide, for the use of the Maronite Christians. Dr. Pinkerton forwarded a copy of this edition from Malta to the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1819.   About eight years later, the Society undertook a new edition, and there being no suitable type in England, it was printed at Paris.   M. de Quatremère and the Baron de Sacy were the editors.   An edition of the Carshun alone, and another edition of the Syriac and Carshun, in parallel columns, left the press in 1828."--1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: 1828 editions?] CARSHUN.--1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: {Syriac?} Character   n.d. John 1:1-14 unknown.]

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